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“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.”

People Way Needs Firsts Stills Real Ends Facts Lying Lines Hero Capable Ideals Fellows Bottom Soldier Harm Tales Confused Legends Bottom Line Legendary Sergeants Fellow Soldiers

Author:Jessica Lynch

“If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.”

Ifs Real Universe Space Imagine Realistic Being Real Reproducing

Author:Alexander Calder

“My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.”

Long Real Term Rich Focus Taught Dad Gains Income Long Term My Time Assets Passive Estates Royalty Dividends Capital Gains Residual Passive Income Rich Dad

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.”

Men World Way Littles Book Real Hard Language Effort Direct Painful Stores Invention Contact Real World Alphabet Hard Way Great Inventions

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.”

“Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.”

Real Dream House Stuff College Jokes My Family Sick Horrible Sense Of Humor Twisted

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.”

Ifs Knows Mean Real Bits Four Honest Willing Cold Posts Being Honest Tangible Unicorn Fusion Something Real Leprechaun

Author:Tim Wise

“Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.”

“When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.”

People Real Happens Planets Real Life Disbelief Landing Neptune

Author:Will Gluck

“There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.”

Writing Real Shows Tvs Development Industry Hollywood Australia Maps Guidelines

Author:Jason Gann

“I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.”

People Thinking Want Real Opportunity Hurt

Author:Richard L. Hanna

“The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.”

Years Real Reason Kids Young Company Tvs Type Dad Radio Oil Tape Oil Companies

Author:Zac Hanson

“My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.”

Heart Real Stories Dream Bigs Would Be Careers Laughing Comedy Crazy Real Story Real Heart

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.”

Men Real Women Enemy Fellows Victim Memorable Womens Rights Mystique

Author:Betty Friedan

“When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.”

Trying Real Real Life

Author:Matthew Lawrence

“There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.”

Want Looks Book Real Courses Stuff Available Stores Handle Video Definite Cds Bookstores Signing Audio

Author:Scotty Moore

“I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.”

Littles Real Kids Mother Actors Company Theater Actresses Little Kid Cuba Default Miami Like Her

Author:Yul Vazquez

“In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.”

People Real Moments Actors Walks Stupid Angry Real Life Shy Embarrassing Inappropriate

Author:Jess Weixler

“Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.”

Real Stories Real Story Reddit

Author:Yishan Wong

“My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.”

Firsts Real Shows Jobs Paid Hey Showbiz Nickelodeon

Author:Graham Yost

“By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.”

World Years Real Age Class Hair Competition Thirty Hats Funeral Civilians Thirty Years Brits

Author:Peter York

“In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.”

Real Would Be America Stars Quality Situation Hollywood Claims Lists Brands Ads Cigarette Manufacturing Tobacco Hollywood Stars

Author:Peter York

“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.”

Writing Looks Real Seems House Rooms Views Subjects Serious Small Rooms Room With A View Serious Subjects

Author:Peter York

“When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.”

People Ifs World Real Asks Break Minutes Happenings Nuclear Trends Fewer Break Out Demographics Fads Living Alone Nuclear Families

Author:Peter York

“When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.”

Knows Feels Book Real Enough Running Reading Company Novel Havens Novelists Real Things Reading Novels

Author:Peter York

“All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.”

Real Might Success Spring Inward Real Success

Book:Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South

Source: Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South

“I am a doctor, a real doctor.”

Real Doctors

Author:Pierre Dukan

“I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.”

Littles Real Jobs Comedy College Majors Administration Recreation Real Jobs

Author:Carlos Alazraqui

“I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.”

May Real Matter Running Decision Worry Products Visuals March Gamer Hardware

Author:J Allard

“If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.”

Ifs Knows Real Fiction Audience Dialogue

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.”

Made Real Past Certain Effort Half News Aim Hearted Cosmetics Half Hearted

Author:Roone Arledge

“As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.”

Doe Real Jobs Artist Paid Day Jobs Real Artists

Author:Black Francis

“The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.”

Knows Real Used Quality Audience Cgi

Author:Jan de Bont

“I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.”

People Thinking Feels Real Character Scene

Author:Jan de Bont

“Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.”

Real Excited Technological Get Real

Author:John Badham

“My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.”

Feels Real Sides Mom My Mom Fairy Grandmother Deceased Godmother Fairy Godmother

Author:Victoria Clark

“My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.”

People Giving Kind Said Real Would Be Guy Dad Scripts Treatment Be Kind My Sister

Author:Rae Dawn Chong

“Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.”

Real Dream Magic Small Dreams

Author:Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.

“Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.”

Writing Real Fun Easy Fulfilling

Author:Iris DeMent

“I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.”

World Persons Real Whole Happened Trials Whole World

Author:Marlen Esparza

“I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.”

Real Can Do Profession Accepted Suspicious Sweden

Author:Erland Josephson

“I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.”

Ifs Believe Real Fighting Argument Don't Believe Tension Real Relationship

Author:Richard LaGravenese

“If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?”

“A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.”

World Made Two Real Shows Film Deals Elements Real World

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.”

Way Real Whole Stories Seems Age Natural Mom My Mom Drawing Whole Life My Sister Extensions Animation

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.”

Real Reading Pages Reading The Bible

Author:Austin Peck

“I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.”

Thinking Giving Feels Real Hands Jobs Heroic

Author:Tom Paulin

“Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.”

People Wells Real Government Sides Doctors Dollars Hospitals Federal Government Reduction Providers

Author:Franklin Raines

“It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.”

People Important Real Remember Impact

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.”

I Can Real Problem Differences Schizophrenic Real Me

Author:Nick Rhodes

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